Number Nine: Fun and Fancy Free

Fun and Fancy Free

1947

Yes, this is movie number nine. Yesterday we did movie number seven. I can count, I promise. However, due to issues getting Make Mine Music, movie number eight, we had to skip it for now. But never fear, it will be watched! It defiantly will as I had to order it off Amazon for a whole dollar fifty! See how dedicated I am to my work?

I miss full length movies with one plot that makes some sense. Can I hurry up and get to Cinderlla? Or Mulan? Or The Lion King?! Especially that one! Because these collections of shorts are killing me. Truly. I can feel them affecting my kidneys, and that can never be good.

One of the nice things about this movie was the narrator, Jiminy Cricket, who I love. Seeing a cricket in a tailcoat just makes me happy, what can I say?

Another redeeming quality was that Walt Disney actually did the voice for Mickey Mouse in this movie, for the last time. Up until this point he had been supplying the famous rodent with his voice, something I never knew.

Jiminy Cricket is floating around in a plant holder, saying how wonderful life is when you live it fun and fancy free, a term originating from the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, something I really should have known. To continue living a life of no worries, sadness, commitments, really anything of the negative sort, Cricket puts on a story record, a record that tells a story. Yeah it’s really self explanatory.

This story is about a bear, named Bongo. He is a circus animal who escapes his sad and torturous life to the wild. In the wild, he meets a nice lady bear. She slaps him, which means love. They live to be very happy.

The next story was told by a bunch of dummies. No really. They’re creepy ventriloquist dummies telling a story. The story is Mickey and the Beanstalk. Everyone knows this story. Mickey gets beans for a cow, everyone yells at him, it grows into a stalk, a giant lives at the top of said stalk, FEE FI FO FUM, Mickey and his friends steal the magic singing harp, giant falls down and dies. The end.

I would say that technically there was nothing wrong with this movie. It just wasn’t that great. I know that Disney can do better than this, because I’ve seen them/him do better. Oh well, at least there are many films to look forward to coming up soon.

Movie Watching Budd(y)(ies): A variety of people kept walking in and out throughout the film.

Best Song: “Fee Fi Fo Fum.” I would totally become a ugly giant if it meant I could sing that song all the time.

Best Part: Probably the scene mentioned above. I’m working on becoming a giant now.